Noojee trestle bridge

With the lower petrol prices and fine weather, Darren and I have been getting out a bit on the weekends, seeing parts of Victoria that we haven't seen yet.  Both of us being from somewhere else means that there's still a lot that we haven't seen in our home state. 

We went out to South Gippsland to visit a brewery to visit the Grand Ridge brewery to buy some beer because Darren's really keen on it.  We were a little surprised to find that it was basically a dodgy country pub (complete with locals propping up the bar), but the beer was good and we stopped at the bakery to buy lunch.  I had a LASAGNE PIE.  Well, it was basically pasta, but who puts pasta in a pie??!  And OMG it was good.  I'm sure Darren had serious food envy as he had a boring old pastie!  It's worth mentioning too this bakery, the Strazleki bakery, had fabulous sweet treats as well.  Real rumballs and some delicious apple slice thing, which we fought over afterwards!  

Anyway, we decided to loop around through the Yarra Valley coming home, which took us through some wonderful forest and some crappy little old timber/mining towns.  We got lost in Noojee, near the bottom of Mt Baw Baw, but then stumbled across this: the Noojee Trestle Bridge


We had a little walk over the bridge and it was a really lovely spot, with a little stream and huge trees and everything.  (added bonus: no flies!)



It was just lovely.  Used to be a railway serving an old tin mine, but now it's part of a walking path into the town of Noojee.

As an added bonus, on the way, we came across The Big Pheasant.  Darren loves Big Things.